"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms" (6 Jul 1775) [with John Dickinson] - Jefferson, Thomas | WIST Quotations
With hearts fortified with these animating Reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the World, declare, that, exerting the utmost Energy of those Powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every…
